Border Patrol agent and Vice President of the Border Patrol’s
local #3307, the union representing agents in the Rio Grande Valley
sector, Chris Cabrera said that traffic on the southern border is
“unseasonably” “more than we’ve ever gotten this time of the year” and
further described the border as a “smuggler’s paradise” and “very
porous” on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.”Cabrera said of traffic on the border, “we are unseasonably getting
more than we’ve ever gotten this time of the year. Usually this time of
the year, it slows down and drops off to a trickle, but we’re still very
busy down here. People are coming in faster than we can keep track of,
people turning themselves in, and people still getting away.”He added, “It just seems that they’re attacking these loopholes, and
they’re exploiting them, and they’re doing a good job, because people
are coming in and they’re getting walked out the door that same day,
sometimes with an ankle bracelet, sometimes not. And they head off to
whatever part of the country they desire, and we’ll never see them
again.”Cabrera further stated that this year has more men travelling with
children than last year, but that which people are actually related to
each other isn’t very certain, because “we’re going off the honors
system.” He continued “it’s a smuggler’s paradise as far as trafficking,
sex trafficking goes, because a lot — these kids can’t defend
themselves.”He also said, “our capture rate, which is very low, it’s a very
porous border, and it’s hard for us to protect this entire stretch, and
we’re getting overrun by people exploiting this loophole.”Cabrera concluded, “there’s no political willpower to let us do our
job. We’re — it’s more — Border Patrol, they’re using us
window-dressing, but they’re not really letting us go out there and
enforce the laws that are on the books, and do what needs to be done.”